Binary star systems are not rare in the night sky so it's a very natural question to wonder whether they could also be repositories of planets. 70 percent of stars are in binary is indeed and I have to add that there's another solution when the two stars are very far from each other orbiting in say thousands of years or tens of thousands of years.
How do we discover more exoplanets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore telescopes, exoplanets, and more with professor of astrophysics and Principal Investigator of HATNet Exoplanet Survey, Gáspár Bakos.
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